in the field
by teepot9

Comment:
Could have been wonderful. The small image doesn't help, and I'm certain that losing the tree from the right of frame would help. This kind of shot, in general, works well if composed against the 'rule of thirds' - I think I'd have tried to take it from the other side of that tree, to make the line of the fence perpendicular to the poplar. Slight blur in the foreground details - was this hot from a moving vehicle?

All alone in the deep blue
by pedroviegas

Comment:
Top image: might have used something like Neatimage to clean up the noise in the blue, shouldn't have been hard. Wonderfully odd portrait though.

A Tree
by yeamg4

Comment:
I'm sorry, I usually try to ignore the more imposing borders, but this one, for me, distracts hugely from the image: and it IS part of your submission. I think the use of a colour from the image weakens the impact of those colours IN the image enormously.

Pavement loneliness
by Jeanseb

Comment:
Nice shot. I'd have corrrected the slight tilt, but otherwise it's fine. Like the pull of subject to and from the bright lightss and the lonely figure. One of few shots so far that nails this challenge.

Dairy Queen
by crabappl3

Comment:
For those intersted, Dr Harold Edgerton, known simply as 'Doc' to his students at MIT, was the pioneer of this trick - indeed his 'Milk Drop Coronet' is perhaps his most famous image, and prints of it sell for phenomenal sums. This is perhaps better than his shot - but then the poor guy was shooting in the 1940's (I think), with his own new invention, the strobe flash: we now, of course, have the good fortune to be able to see our shots straight away, and select the best. Worth checking out his work, if you get the chance.

Ed

House of God
by gcosue

Comment:
Can't connect this with the challenge subject I'm afraid. Loneliness, solitude, ... it's an architectural portrait, though. Reasonable work - god colours, sharpness, but odd cropping, the perspective distortion is peculiar and has the feeling of not being wanted.

I toad you I frogot the way home!
by fleenk

Comment:
Weird. A more defined image - this is presumably a 1:1 zoom of the original, from the quality - would add impact, but this truly bizarre. Don't really know what to make of it though... intereswsting, but kind of appalling too.

Alone in the wood
by joannadiva

Comment:
Compositionally nice - good and effective use of leading lines, and tonally interesting. It isn't giving me an impression of loneliness, or even solitude somehow - possibly the simple awareness of the presence of a photographer :-)

Kevin!!!!!!!
by fisheye

Comment:
I don't think I understand your point, I'm afraid. I quite like the blur of the figure moving across the street, especially as all the other figures are so static, but that seems incidental to the shot, which appears just to be an architectural night shot. And then the photo's title just throws me completely. Feel free to PM me and explain, but don't expect any icrease in score :-)

All Alone in the Green Grass of Hope
by bsalu

Comment:
DOF seems a touch too shallow here - fromt and back of the fungus are drifting out of focus without concentrating the eye on any particular feature that jumps out to me, especially with some of the grasses being within that plane. Odd composition too - perhaps a compromise between a broad context and a very close concentration on the subject.